Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/5 Industrial Development and Trade (1920s-1930s)
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/046
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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/050
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[6] October 1923
20 January 1926
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Ms letter from DJ McGrath, 1253 St Nicholas Ave, New York City, to (Fawsitt)
Letter from Mary M Slattery, The Irish Industries Depot, Inc, to Fawsitt
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Scope and Content: Letter from McGrath to (Fawsitt) asking pardon for delayed response to his letters and cables, explaining ‘I have been so utterly disgusted with the Depot affair that I hadn’t the heart to write to you’. He summarises his dealings with Mrs Slattery and the Committee, and states that he understands ‘there is to be active opposition’ to the new owner, predicting ‘litigation will probably wreck the sale’. He notes he has read with care the documents sent to him by Fawsitt via Mrs Kirby, and gives his view that Fawsitt’s dismissal ‘represents the culminating point of a long course of animosity against your good self’. He adds ‘they wanted an excuse to fire you and the Crawford incident served them as well as any other might have’. He sympathises that this ‘vendetta’ is being carried into private life. He does not know to whom he could show the documents ‘as interest in Ireland and things Irish now appears to be as dead as the dodo’.
Scope and Content: Letter from Slattery to Fawsitt asking if he knows any hurley makers other than O’Connell, Cork, explaining that she does not want to do business with him again ‘as the last lot of sticks we got were a complete failure’. She has heard Lawlor, Kilkenny, was a good hurley maker, and asks if Fawsitt could contact him about an order. [The headed stationery includes a listing of products]
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/051
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2 August 1926
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(Copy) letter from (Fawsitt) to Mrs M Slattery
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Scope and Content: (Copy) letter from (Fawsitt) to Slattery, stating that he has forwarded per Leo Fearon, her business partner, ms copies of twelve lectures on Irish industries which he delivered on 2RN ‘the Dublin Broadcasting Station’. He states these were well received, and that Fearon is of the view that publication as a book ‘would be a commercial proposition in the States’. If she endorses this view, he is prepared to consent to publication. He notes he will in any case require return of the MSS as many are original copies.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/047
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13 November 1923
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Ms Letter from DJ McGrath to (Fawsitt)
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Scope and Content: Letter from Mcgrath to Fawsitt, apologising for not replying to his recent letters owing to business, and reporting ‘No! The Committee would not give peaceable possession even to his Satanic Majesty in its anxiety that the business go to Mrs S’. Mrs Slattery now claims that McGrath ‘arranged matters with the G.L. [Gaelic League] at home in favour of J.C.!’. He is now trying to keep the matter from litigation. He thinks J.C. [Connolly] could ‘have made the place a success’. He thinks Fawsitt’s decision to ‘go into seclusion for a while is all to the good provided the dairy business gives you enough to live on and to occupy your time’.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/052
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Undated [1926]
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Letter card from Mrs Slattery (to Fawsitt) [incomplete]
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Scope and Content: Letter card from Slattery to (Fawsitt) returning his manuscript, and explaining ‘owing to the upset conditions at home & abroad I am afraid it would be very hard to dispose of them’. [seems to be a continuation of a letter started on a now missing card. No date.]
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/048
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Date stamped 8 October 1923
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Telegram from Slattery to Fawsitt
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Scope and Content: Telegram from Slattery to Fawsitt stating ‘Increased our offer twelve hundred not worth more your friends against buying venture uncertain’.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/053
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12 January 1928 (Date stamped 13 January 1928)
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Letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, with Envelope addressed to Mr J.L. Fawsitt, c/o Irish Industries Development Association, 102 Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland
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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/049
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Scope and Content: Letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, expressing the hope that his children are now recovered having gotten ‘such a contagious disease’. She refers to mutual old friends, and then asks Fawsitt to help her with an enclosed order for hurleys from Martin Lalor [not present]. She notes problems which arose with previous order. A rough note at the foot of the letter summarises the order. A note by Fawsitt on the front dated 30 January records his actions on foot of this letter. The envelope present is addressed to Fawsitt, dated stamped 13 Jan 1928 from Grand Central Station 2. ‘S.S. Majestic’ is written under the date stamp, while the return address printed in the top left is Irish Industries Depot, Inc, 780 Lexington Avenue, New York. A note in pen on the left reads ‘Patk [Preston] / [caretaker] Beamish’. On the back of the envelope are what appear to be rough notes [by Fawsitt] for a talk at the Merriman School. [not certain that this envelope matches Slattery’s letter above].
20 January 1924
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Letter from Mrs MM Slattery, 186 Claremont Ave, New York, to Fawsitt
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Scope and Content: Ts letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, wishing him a good recovery from a recent operation and sympathising on his having to move out of St Petroc’s. She offers him the use of her house at 32 Morehampton Road for five years. She thinks it a pity for him to go ‘down the country’, unless he plans to stay permanently. Regarding the store, she states that ‘all was fixed up before Christmas and we were quite pleased with our Christmas trade’. She understands ‘our competitor’ has gone into wholesale, assisted by McGrath. She thinks it a bad time to take up that trade, referring to tariffs and the forthcoming presidential election.
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